The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-09 00:00:00

TER BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND CHINA MAILS. By the overland mail we have advices and papers from Calcutta to Nov. 22 ; Madras, Nov. 28; Bom- bay, Dec. 14; and Hong-Kong, Nov. 14. We take the following from the Bombay Gazette of the 14th ult g' The little war' on the frontier threatens to tarn out not so small a matter after all. Besides the native force already under Neville Chamber lain, 7,000 European troops are moving to the frontier. The fights which have occurred, and in which so many valuable lives have been lost, have been defensive encounters against the onslaughts of tribes we have armed and driven into revolt. " The changes in Sir Naville Chamberlain's posi tion, by which command is obtained of the line of communication with the plans by Shandarra, was _ _ concluded on the 18th ultimo, without opposition on the part of the enemy; but in the afternoon of the same day an attack in great force was made up the gorge in front of the camp. The enemy had to stand the fire of field guns, and appear to have lost about 120 killed and 200 wounded, according to the best information obtainable. They effected, how- ever, a formidable attack ontwo of the pickets, in which, we regret to say, we suffered considerable loss. We have to lament the loss of four cfficers— namely, Captain Smith, of her Majesty's 71st; Lieu tenant Jones, doing duty 71st ; Lieut. Chapman, her Majesty's 101st ; Lieut Mosely, 14th Native Infantry ; and nine Europeans and 36 natives killed ; together with Lieut. Inglis, 14th Native Infantry, and 73 men wounded. Total casualties on our side, 119. _ _ "On the 20th the tribes attacked Gen. Chamber , lain with much determination; the picket which the enemy had taken was gallantly regained, and the enemy driven down the hill, Lieut. Sanderson and Dr. Piele, of the 101st Regiment, were killed and five officers wounded, including Gen. Chamber lain and Col. Hope, Major Delafosse and Lieut. Anderson; 128 men, tritish and native were killed and wounded. The loss of the tribe was much greater. On the 21st Captain Aldridge and some men were killed. Since this last defeat the tribes have not attacked. " General Chamberlain reports on the 20th that he does not require reinforcements, and speaks con fidently of final success. " He occupies a commanding position with 13 guns. The troops are hard worked, but their health has continued good. They are well pro visioned, and have plenty of ammunition. " Oar latest intelligence from the Umbeylah Pass shows that the situation is much improved, and that the Fabian generalship pursued promises soon to bear fruit. The tribes have made no serious attack since the 20th. Their loss in killed is so enor mously exaggerated by spies who have visited their camp as to show that in reality it has been very great, and indicates that the numbers engaged have been large. Decimated by casualtiee, without sur gical attendance, and perishing of cold, the astute and practised diplomacy of Major James has found the Bornewals more amenable to reason than they hale heretofore been. The personal influence of this officer on the Peshawur border has induced the Bassee Kheyl, a turbulent section of the Afreedee, to join our camp at Umbeylah. This significant demonstration is in accordance with the uninter rupted quietude of the trans•indus territory. It is to be hoped that by an early date matters, both diplomatic and military, will have been so adjusted that the force will be at liberty to accomplish the objects of the expedition. The command of the field force intermediately held by Colonel Wylde, C. 13., of the Corps of Guides, has now been assumed by Major-General Garvock, who has arrived at Umbeylah. " The wound received by Sir Neville Chamber lain, though not dangerous, having proved more troublesome than was anticipated, will probably compel his return to the plains. "Letters from the Punjaub state that his-Excel lency the Commander-in-Chief will not go to the frontier, but occupy a central position, probably at or near Lahore. Mention is made of several arrests, including native commissioned officers, in the Sikh corps stationed in the province. We give the list of officers killed and wounded up to the latest accounts : KILLED. Oct. 21--Lient. Oinks, R.A. Oat. 26--Lieut. Clifford, Adjutant Ist Punjaub Cavalry, volunteer—Lieut. Richmond, D.D., 20th Punjaub Native In fantry. Nov. 6—Major Harding, Bombay Staff—Lieut. Murray, 71st Highland Light Infantry—Licut. Dongal, 79th Cameron Highlanders, volunteers. Nov. 13—Lieut. Davidson, second in command, Ist Pun jaub Infantry. Pantry. N ov . 19 —Capra Aldridge, 71st Highland Light In. fantry. Nov. 20—Lieut. Sanderson and Dr. Piele, of tho 101 s Regiment. Nov. 18—Captain Smith, 71st Highland Light Infantry —Lieut. Jones, 79th Cameron Highlanders, volunteer, 71st Light Infantry—Lieut. Chapman, 101 d Bengal Fusiliers—Lieut. Moseley, 14th Feruzepere Native In- WOUNDED. Oct. 21—Lieut. Brown, Royal Engineers, slightly. Oct. 26—Lieut. Drake, 321 Muzbees, severely—Lieut. Barrow, Survey, severely. Oct. 30—Major Keyes, Ist Punjaub Infantry, severely, lost two fingers. Nov. 6—Lieut. Battye, Guides, dangerously, doing well on 18th—Lieut. Oliphant, severely, doing well. Nov. 13—Lieut. Pitcher, Ist Punjaub Infantry, severely in the arm—Lieut. Forlong, Guides, contusion. . _ _ Nov. 18—Lieut. Inglis, 14th Native Infantry, danger otusly,,good accounts on 20th—Major Ross, slightly. Nov. 20—Brigadier General Sir N. Chamberlain—Col. A. T. Wilde, C. 8., Guides—Col. Taylor, Major Delafosse, and Lieut. Anderson—Col. Hope, 71st, and Campbell, sth P. 1., slightly. " The town and fort of Gaadur were completely destroyed by fire on the night of the 23d ult. Great distress in consequence. Guadur is due west from Kurrachee about 400 miles, the place at which the land line of telegraph from Kurrachee, intended to form part of what will be known as the Persian Gulf lithe of telegraph to England, terminates. The telegraph from Kurrachee to Guadur was completed in April last :under the superintendence of Mr. Watson. " Lady Elgin reached Sallander on the 3d and left for Delhi on the sth. She halted at Delhi on the 7th and Bth, and left Allyglinr on the 9th, com ing thence by train straight to Allahabad on her way to Calcutta. " His Exeellency the Commander-in Chiaf of Madras, Sir Hope Grant, was expected to return to the Presidency last week from Cannanore, and abandons for the present his intention of making a tour of inspection to Southern India and Burnish. " The Lord Bishop of Calcutta and the metropo litan of India has arrived at Bombay, in company with the Bishop of Madras, to hold his first metro politan visitation. fi His Excellency Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of, Bombay, is at present in Bombay. " His Excellency Sir William Mansfield, corn , mander in chief, has proceeded to the Mahablesh wur Hills for residence. " The agent of the Governor General for Central India left Indore on the 2d instant, on his tour through Malwa. " An official report to she Government of India, in the railway department, mentions that if the supply of permanent way materials from Bengal does not fail, there is every reason to expect that the East Indian Railway will be opened for public traffic up to the banks of the Jumna, at Allahabad, by the Ist March, 1864 ; up to Booluushur-road by the Ist January, 1864 ; and up to the banks of the jaman, at Delhi, by the Ist July, 1864. "Toe British Government has, it appears, inter fered in the matter of the four Italian gentlemen detained as prisoners by the Khan of Bukhara. The Atneer of Affghanistan has been requested to send an ambassador demanding their release ; Meer Uilum Jan has been sent, although ostensibly for another purpose; Sirdar Mahomed Arzim Khan has sought British protection, which was of course refused. rh , 3 Candaharies threaten an appeal to the British Government to be released from the rule of Sirdah Mahomed Ameen Khan.' CHINA. The China Mail of November 14 contains the following : " Ia China a small crisis has occurred which will determine the respective weights of different forces at present in the field of Chinese foreign politics. Captain Sherard Osborne demands an inlet endent command. As yet his demand has not been acceded to. The flotilla is, on that account, inactive. "Major Gordon, to whom all eyes are turned, still pursues his successful course. It was thought that he would resign his command, in conjunction with the action of General Brown in withdrawing the English troops from Quinsan, bat nothing is heard of such a proceeding on Gordon's part. It is just probable, however, that he may have given the native authorities to understand that he will act in accordance with the policy of his country ; and, if that policy be to withhold assistance from the Chinese unless they accept it on certain stated terms, no doubt Major Gordon will cooperate with the others in furthering the views of our own authori ties. At present his retirement would be quite premature. " Since the date of our last issue we learn that Gordon has taken another important stockade (Li bow) on the north face of Soochow. He now commands three sides of the city, and only the western side, with the Tai-hoo lake adjacent, is still open to the rebels. Gordon has, for a con siderable time been aware that, through this lake, supplies have been brought to Soochow, and has left it open, doubtless, as a means of escape, should his usual tactics succeed, and the rebels evacuate the city. In the very probable event of their choosing to remain and stand a siege, we may expect cer tain operations on and around the Tai-hoo lake, and it is most likely that a good account will be given of the rebels lodged thereabouts. "From Tientsin we hear that large bodies of marauders are again in the neighbourhood of that port. The natives had shown some alarm, but the foreign community were °urged celebrating the annual races. " At Hankow, as reported in our last issue, the Nyenfei have been heard of as concentrating their bands at a point within 30 miles of the city. The Taoutae and the principal Chinese traders are said to be packing up their effects with a view to flight. Rowdyism is appearing at Hankow, as elsewhere. " The Shanghae papers are most mysterious on the subject of a foreign firm having lent the Fatae of the province a sum of money, to be repaid in two monthly instalments, but whether it is the lender, the borrower, or the proposed form of repayment that has offended the Shanghae community we are not in a position to state. Trade is said to be in creasing at Shanghae. No other news of import ance has reached us from that settlement. "From Ningpo we learn that a piratical strong-' hold, situated at Wan-tu quan, has been destroyed by the Chinese contingent, who proceeded on the 20th ult., under Colonel Cooke, and took the city by assault. Twenty-three junks of piratical build were destroyed on this occasion. " From Amoy, Fuhchau, and Swatow, we have no news of importance. At Canton and Macao matters go on as usual. The annual regatta comes. off at Canton next week." JAPAN. The Japan Commercial News of Nov. 1 says : •' In oar issue of Tuesday last we stated that their Excellencies General Pruyn, the American minister resident, end D. de Graeff Van Polsbrok, the consul general of the Netherlands, had received invita tions to attend a conference of the Gorogio, at Yedo, at 12 o'clock on the 26th inst. "The customary civilities having been gone through, the business of the meeting was stated— viz., the closing of the port of Kanagawa to foreign trade. "The Gorogio said they had invited the repre sentatives of America and of Holland to Yedo to open to them in the presence of the whole of the Tycoon's Government the very important subject which they had now approached, and which they thought would require several conferences to arrive at a full understanding and settlement. With this view they had appointed Takemoto Kai no Kami and Ikido Sinai as commissioners to negotiate the withdrawal of foreigners from Yokohama, and the closing of the port of Kanagawa to foreign trade. They requested the foreign ministers to inform their resp?ctive Governments that the notification of the Minister Ogasawara, signifying the intention of the Japanese Government to exclude foreigners entirely from Japan, had been withdrawn and cancelled except in so far as Yokohama was concerned, but that they found it necessary to close that port. " The foreign ministers expressed great surprise that they should have been invited to Yedo to hear such a communication as this, and wanted to know if this was all the important business for which they had been invited to meet the Gorogio, and why the British and French ministers had not been invited "The Gorogio answered that they had not yet communicated upon this subject with the British minister or the French minister; that they had communicated, first with the representatives of America and Holland, because they had made the first treaty with America and were the oldest friends of the Dutch. They wished to make this important communization in the presence of all the chief officers of the Government, and as all could not con veniently leave Yedo to wait upon the foreign ministers at Yokohama, they found it necessary to nvite the latter to come to Yedo to receive this com- munication. "The Japanese ministers said that the treaties had been made only as an experiment to see if foreign trade and intercourse would snit Japan. They found it did not suit, and were desirous to know if the foreign ministers would consent to give up Yokohama without previously consulting with their respective governments. They regretted the murders that took place from time to time at the port of Yokohama, but could not prevent such things, nor put a stop to the revolution which any day may break out in the country, without closing that port. " The American minister and the Dutch consul general said they could not discuss such a proposi tion—that the invitation to them to come to Yedo on this occasion was like one man sending word to another to come to his house in order to tell him that he must leave that house. General Pruyn told them that the treaty of the Japanese Government with the United States was not a temporary one, but one of perpetuity, and, in the language of the treaty, ' on firm and lasting foundations, &e.,' and could not and would not be given up. "The Gorogio expressed a wish that, the subject matter of this conference might - dot be communi cated to the other foreign Z.tnisters in Japan, but both the foreign represe Aatives present assured the Gorogio that the w.eole of what had passed at that conference woeild be immediately communicated to their celleagues, the other foreign ministers, and that Piny objections to the contrary were as vain as to expect the treaty powers to give up Yokohama or any further ports in the country. Indeed, the American minister went so far as to say that a great mistake had been made in temporarily giving up Chace; that it should never have been done; and that had it not been done, this request would never, in his opinion, have been made. " By this time the Gorogio had written invitations to the British minister and the French minister, re questing them to acme to Yedo to meet them in con ference. We are not sure that the subject of the desired conference was specified on this occasion ; but the Gorogia said they wished to ' discuss' certain important matters with each of those ministers. " We understand that Colonel Neale, her Bri tannic Majesty's representative, replied to this invitation at once in terms to put an effectual stop to any further invitations of this extraordinary character from the Japanese Government. He told them that he would not attend a conference which had for its object nothing less than the cession of a great treaty right, that he would not discuss nor receive any representatioe, nor minister or envoy of the Japanese Government, upon such a subject; that the utmost he would dcrwould be to forward to his Government any representation in writing made in becoming language, which the Japanese Govern ment might desire to make to the British Govern ment ; that ho advised them to weigh well the terms in which they would make such representa tion, as the consequences might be very momentous to them ; and, in conclusion, he warned them, we hear, that in the meantime, pending the answer of the British Government to such representation, any THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1864, act of aggression upon British interests in Japan would be repelled by him with all the force now at his disposal. "This unmistakeable reply to their invitation will doubtless damp the ardour of the Gorogio for discussing with Colonel Neale the important matter of closing the port of Kanagawa ; and taken in connection with the firm and indignant refusal of the representatives of America and Holland to dis cuss or entertain for one moment the proposition of the Japanese Government, the latter may, upon reflection, cancel that as they did the sweeping announcement of Ogasawarra for the exclusion of foreigners altogether from Japan." " From the foregoing," says the China Mail, " it will be seen that the persistent course of repression, which closed °sacs and put us out of Yedo, is now being brought to bear upon Yokohama. It is, there fore, evident that nothing but immediate and vigorous measures of hostility will avail us if we wish to open Japan." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NORTH-EASTERN. An influential meeting, convened by the Mayor in com pliance with a requisition, was held in the Leeds Town-hall on Thursday, " to consider and express their opinion upon the projected schemes of the North-Eastern Railway Com pany, and especially upon those portions by which it is proposed to cross the principal streets of the town of Leeds." The MAYOR presided, and said he would endeavour to give all parties an opportunity of expressing their views. Mr. W. B. DENISON moved the first resolution, which was to the effect that the meeting viewed with dissatisfac tion the scheme of the North-Eastern Railway Company for carrying a line of railway through the centre of the town of Leeds, and crossing the principal streets by means of bridges, which, while being destructive of the beauty of the town and dangerous to the people, offered no compensating advantages which justified such a mutilation of the streets. In moving this resolution Mr. Denison admitted that Leeds had for some years past been deficient in that accommoda tion of railway stations to which it was entitled by its size and largely increasing population. Mr. LUPTON seconded the resolution. He said a project which involved an outlay in Leeds of upwards of half a million sterling was entitled to the calmest possible consi deration. He thought the scheme would not be of advan tage to the borough of Leeds. (Applause.) Mr. E. BAINES, M.P., supported the resolution. His opinion was that the adoption of the scheme would be a gross disfigurement and injury to the town—(cheers) —that it would be, as medical men had pleaded, dangerous to many persons passing through the town with horses and carriages; that it would be very injurious to property, and a very great eyesore in all the principal streets. He urged the propriety of having a large station on the south side of the Wellington Station, and pointed out that the North- Eastern Company had themselves proposed an alternative plan by which they would accomplish the shortening of the rJute, by running along the Midland line as far as liunslet, and going thence upon their old Leeds and Selby line. (Cheers.) Aldeman KITSON, one of the directors of the company, supported the scheme propounded by his Board. He said that the object which that company had in view was to conmet Leeds, the conveying centre of all the great rail way system north of the Thames, with all those systems in the best manner possible. At last the engineer decided upon the present plan, which at first sight had the appear ance of being a bold one. But the more it had been con sidered the more its advaLtanges had shown themselves. (Hear, hear.) Mr. G. LEEHAN addressed the meeting at considerable length in favour of the scheme. Mr. DENISON having replied, The motion was put to the meeting and carried, only about 30 or 40 hands being held up against it. Mr. JOWITT then moved a resolution pledging the meet ing to support a well-devised plan for giving larger and better station accommodation and increased railway facili ties to the town, but affirming the opinion that land on the south side of Wellington-street should alone be taken for that purpose. Mr, EAGLAND seconded the motion, and it was agreed to. Mr. BIssINGTON moved that a deputation from that meet ing be appointed to confer with the Town Council, and any other public bodies, in order that the most vigorous efforts might be made to oppose the scheme ; and that a committee be appointed to carry out the resolutions, and to take such measures as they might deem beet to defeat the scheme. Mr. LUDOLF seconded the motion, which was also carried, and a vote of thanks to the Mayor concluded the proceedings. TAMAR, KIT-HILL,ANDCALLINGION, The estimated cost of this line is £60,000 for seven miles. Operations have been commenced on the line, which is in tended to open up a large mineral district in which nearly 20 mines aro situated. The consent of the various land owners has been obtained. SIRHOWY VALLEY. The relaying and repairs of this lino are completed, and tin railway is now ready for ordinary traffic. As the Sir howy is the nearest route from the port of Newport to the Aberdare and Merthyr coal fields, it is expected that the Great Western will lease the line, and work it in connexion with their Aberdare branch, TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Recelpts.-% Railways. 1863. 1862. - 1863. 1882 £ £ Belfast and N, Counties 136 136 2,102 1,854 Belfast and County Down- 49 49 631 623 Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 1,22 1 889 Bristol and Exeter l2l/ 121% 5,366 5,340 Caledonian Cockermouth& Workington B4 84 - - Cork and Bandon 2O 20 295 291 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 129 145 Cork and You,ghal Cornwall 531 534 1,314 1,129 Deeside l7 17 250 251 Dublin & Belfast Junction B3 83 1,273 1,312 Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,323 1,242 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Weald 9ll 481 2,682 2,050 Edinburgh and Gl asgow 1691 1691 7,948 7.318 Furnet„, am 5O 5 + 3,113 2,411 Gl`,*.sg,ow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union 663 134 i 27,849 24,119 Great Northern 353 351 28,901 24.907 Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,605 1,583 Gt. Nortim. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 71/ 354 345 9t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.).. 3731 329 6,324 6,511 Great Western 10564 10324 55,269 50.627 Inverness & Aberdeen June... 86 863 1,075 881 Inverness & Perth Junction 110 i - 1,143 - Irish North-Western ll5 145 1,187 1,435 Lancashire & Yorkshire 4)2 3954 36,740 32.520 Limerick and Ennis... 241 24/ 121 135 Limerick and Foynes 261 264 77 106 Llanelly 461 481 513 465 London & North-Western London and Blackwall 5 61 1,772 1,650 London & south-Western . Loud, Brighton, &S. Coast 2Bl 261/ 15,013 15,161 London, Chatham, & Dover 72 221 4,176 2 656 Do. Metropolitan Extension 101 5i 900 120 Load., Tilbury, & Southend Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh Ranch. S.Jun.&Altrincham.. 94 91 1,' , 61. 1,240 Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan 3l - 2,228 - Midland (incl. N.-Western) B4l 614/ 38,440 34,572 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2594 259/ 3,815 3,867 Monkland 7ll 714 1,409 1,270 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,414 2, , 55 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Dart 1095 10791 48,786 45,727 North London 9 9 3,212 2,810 North Staffordshire 254 252 7,957 7.420 Oswestry and Newton.., 5O 42 1,073 836 Rh ymney St. Helen's Canfi & Railway 52 62 1,934 1,818 Scottish ventral --- .. ..L5h North-Eastern l3B 138 5,046 4.816 ~omerset and Dorset 66 394 598 347 South Devon South-Eastern 3OB 308 18,622 18,609 Taff Vale 57 55 5, 02 4,761 Ulster Vale of Clwyd. Vale of Neath 321 251 2,121 1,833 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 252 267 Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,127 1,162 West Cornwall 274 274 702 672 W.llaztlepool Harbr.&ltail 52 52 3,616 3,325 W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7 7 517 443 Whitehaven Junction l3 13 8.4 714 Whitehaven & I..'urness Jun 35 35 882 630 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 Austrian B2B Belgian Eastern junction 26 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185 Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish lOBl I Eastern Bengal llO Eastern of France 1167 52 1,283 1,040 828 35,058 34141 Vi 308 263 167 i 2,593 1,762 161± 2,406 1,358 189 4,0:0 3,847 lost 4,457 3,897 Last Indian Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O Great Indian Peninsula s3B} Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southeen of India Great Western of Canada 345 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 6 5 ,3 Northern of Canada Northern of France 697 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterna lBO5 Paris and Orleans 1614 Pernambuco 774 Royal Danish 69 Sambre and Meuse 6B South Austrian southern of France 770 Victorian lto Welland West Flanders 75 W. and. N.W. of France . 932 1081 54,759 50,323 639 16,616 10,753 1090 19,72 19,373 495 8,688 8,39) 134 3,160 3,187 79 522 169 315 11,162 11,204 490 18,8!3 17,071 91 1,210 1,603 697 61,176 5e,014 44 962 199 1676 - - 786 444 i-94 1,255 1,496 1315 52,683 50,117 6•30 27,886 23,215 151 2.1 813 10,097 31,333 EXTRAORDINARY AND RARE BIRTH. At Edmond's, late Wombwell's Royal Windsor Castle Mena gerie, Hackney, a Bactrian or double-humped camel gave birth on Thursday last to a very fine young one, which, together with the mother, are doing well. This is the only instance on record of a camel being bred in England. [ADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Pills.—Enfeebled exis tence.—Tnis medicine embraces every attribute required in a general and domestic remedy; it overturns the founda tions of disease laid by defective food and impure air. In obstructions or congestions of the liver, lungs, bowels, or any other organ these Pills are especially serviceable and eminently successful. They should be kept in readiness in every family, as they are a medicine without a fault for young persons and those of feeble constitutions. They never cause pain, or irritate the most sensitive nerves, or most tender bowels. Holloway's Pills are the best known purifiers of th 3 blood and the best promoters of absorption and secretion, which remove ail poisonous and obnoxious particles from froth solids and fluids. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—Jan. 8. John and Daniel Buckley, brothers, were indicted for as saulting James Blake. Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecuted. Mr. Warton appeared for the prisoner, This was one of the most scandalous outrages that, per haps, ever came before the court. From the evidence it ap peared that the prosecutor was the landlord of the Railway Arms beer shop, at Kensington, and that on the 11th of December, the prisoners, who were masons, were there drinking in the tap. He had occasion to go to Hammer smith, at mid-day, and on his return home he found the prisoners and two men wrangling and making a noise, they being drunk at the time. A chair and the table was knocked over the oven door, which were picked up by one of the pri soners. They asked the prosecutor to drink with them,and he did so, A man, who had been lying on the seat, made a grumble about it. The prisoner John got up from his seat, and leant over the table to hit the man, prosecutor tried to prevent him, and told them not to make such a piece of work in his house. The four men set upon him, got him down, and kicked him unmercifully. He then went into the bar, and, whilst standing there, the prisoner John struck him a fearful blow on the head with a chisel, inflicting a wound 2 inches and a half long and a quarter of an inch deep. He was knocked down and kicked and beaten about the head and face, and John again used the chisel. The land lady went to her husband's assistance, when they assaulted and dragged her to the stairs,where they struck at her with the chisel. A person who was there went for assistance, which having procured, he pointed the prisoners out, but the two others had got away. He received two very severe black eyes, besides other injuries, and was laid up. When eharged each of the prisoners said it was the other. Mr. Walton submitted that the evidence opened the way to a doubt, of which, if they entertained one, the jury would give the prisoners the benefit. The Assistant Judge summed up. The jury found both prisoners guilty. The Assistant Judge then sentenced them to six months' hard labour, observing that a more scandalous case he had never heard, and the public must be protected from such outrages. Thomas Fann, a general dealer in Spitalfields, was in dicted for feloniously receiving, well knowing them to have been stolen, 100 pairs of gloves, the property of the Great Western Railway Company Mr. Giffard prosecuted for the company; Mr. F. H. Lewis defended the prisoner Fenn. Fann surrendered in court and pleaded guilty. Charles Timothy was also indicted with him as a party concerned in the robbery. Ho pleaded not guilty. Mr. Lewis, on behalf of his client, urged that be had 12 children to support, and under the circumstances, as he had pled guilty to the indictment, and the company had so far gained their object in instituting this prosecution, he hoped they would not press the case too harshly. Mr. Giffard said so far as the company were concerned they had no desire to press the case, and he should there fore offer no evidence against Timothy. The latter was accordingly acquitted; Fann was sen tenced to six months' hard labour. Thomas Jordan, a respectably dressed young man, was indicted, first for feloniously embezzling the sum of 14s 6d, received by him for and on account °Messrs. Margetson and Heywood, of the Banat., Islington, and also for steal ing a piece of flannel, value 2s Bd, and other articles, the property of the same. Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecuted ; Mr. Cooper defended. Upon the evidence, the learned Judge said there was no case against him, and he was acquitted. On the other he was tried. It appeared that the prisoner was an assistant to the pro secutors, and when he was in custody on the other charge some small articles were found in his possession, which were identified as belonging to the prosecutors. After hearing Mr. Cooper, The jury found the prisoner not guilty. (Before Mr. Payne.) Christian Reiter, 25, sugar baker, John Myer, 22, and Henry Mues, 26, three Germans, were indicted for assault ing George Olett, a constable of the metropolitan force, in the execution of his duty, and a common assault. Mr. Cooper appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Metcalfe, instructed by Mr. Young, appeared for the prisoner. /d, Albert acted as interpreter. From the evidence, it appeared that while George 011ett, police-cons table, 415 A, was on duty at a quarter to 12 on Christmas-eve, a woman came and made a statement from which he went to No. 4, George-street, Whitechapel, a sugar-house, and he saw part of a man's coat hanging on a gate, and a man looking over the wall. He went to the front and gave information, and then proceeded to look over the premises. Upon going up stairs he found a door open, and the prisoner Reiter in the room. Rieter said something to him in German, which he did not understand, and struck him on the forehead with his fiat. Several other Germans then came in, and caught hold of 011ett and threw him down stairs, and from the violence of the fall, he became insensible and was much injured. Police-sergeant Blackwell, 4 H, said he heard of the dis turbance, and went and found 011ett at the bottom of the stairs insensible and without his hat. The prisoner Mues rushed on him (Blackwell) with an open knife in his hand. He said something in German, and was much excited. He raised his arm with the knife as if to strike, and he struck at Blackwell with it; but Blackwell, who had his staff drawn, warded off the blow, and hit him on the forehead with his staff. The other prisoner Myer also had an open knife in his hand, which he struck at Blackwell, but did not injure him. The two prisoners, Myer and Mues, wore not quite dressed. There was a general disturbance, both inside and outside the house. There wore about 80 sugar bakers and a mob of 600 or 700 people. The Germans rushed at the constable like lions, some with pokers, others with tongs, fenders, and all sorts of things. The reason why 011ett went into the house was, that a woman came and told him she thought there were thieves in the house. Benjamin Prior, another sergeant of police, corroborated the greater part of this evidence. When the prisoners Myer and Mues were struck by Sergeant Blackwell they went down into the yard, and laid down as if insensible. They could not take them to the station the front way, and were obliged to take a cab and take them out the back way. There were about 25 sugar-bakers living in that house. Police-constable Queenby, 220 H, said he went to the house at a quarter to 12 on Christmas-eve, and saw Reiter with others at the foot of the stairs. Reiter had the poker (produced), and struck him with it on the left shoulder and then on the hat, which he knocked off his head. Mues re ceived a severe blow on the head; layer also had a slight graze. Mr. Metcalfe made an able address on behalf of the prisoners. Mr. Payee summed up the evidence. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against all the pri soners. Mr. Fayne said the prisoners Myer and Mlles had been partially punished by the blows from Sergeant Blackwell's staff, and perhaps it was fortunate for them that they had received those blows, or they might have had to answer for a more serious offence than they were now charged with. He should take that into consideration, and pass a more lenient sentence than he should upon the other prisoner, Reiter. The sentence of the Court upon Reiter was that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for four calendar months, and upon Myer and Muss that they be imprisoned for two calendar months, and that the whole should enter into their own reeognisances in the sum of £4O to keep the peace towards all her Majesty's subjects for the next 12 months. Maria Jones, 30, described in the calendar as a servant, was placed at the bar upon an indictment charging her with stealing a purse, a ring, an ear-ring, and the sum of £1 16s 6d, the property of Rebecca Maybury, from her person, The Jury found her Guilty. Mr. Payne sentenced her to six calendar months' impri sonment. John Goff, 28, mason, and Henry Campbell, 28, tailor, were indicted for breaking into the dwelling-house of Thos. Spooner, and stealing a tablecover and other articles, his property; also two dresses and other articles, and the sum of £5, the property of Louisa Hogger. Mr. Grantham prosecuted; Mr. Montagu Williams de fended Campbell; and Goff pleaded Guilty. It appeared from the evidence of Abraham Ballard, police-constable 324 S, that at ten minutes to 7 o'clock on Christmas night he was on duty in Hamilton-street, Camden Town, and from suspicions he entertained he stopped the prisoners, who were each carrying bundles under their arms wrapped up in black silk. He asked Campbell what he had got there, and he said they had got two parcels, and that they were in a hurry to catch a train. The other prisoner also said that they were going with an excursion train to Birmingham. Campbell said the policeman need not suspect them, as they wei ein a hurry to catch the train, but he would show him what they had got. Upon which each of the prisoners suddenly drew a parcel from under his arm, threw them at him, and ran away. They ran down Bayham-street, pursued by the constable as far as York-street, where he caught Goff. He did not know Campbell before, but he looked at him well while he was speaking to him. When Goff was caught he was brought back to where the bundles had been thrown down,which were picked up by two gentle men cud, with the prisoner, taken to the station house. At the station house Golf was searched, and on him were found 2G skeleton keys and a jemmy. The bundles contained a number of articles which had been abstracted from a house in Hamilton-street. The policeman afterwards went to No. 6 in that street, and on examination found thatthe door had been broken open, and comparing the marks on it he found the jemmy taken from Goff entirely corresponded with them, and had evidently been the instrument used in effecting the burglary ; and there was a piece of candle left behind the ,door which the burglars had used. The prosecutrix and her sister were the only persons who occupied the house, and on the morning of Christmas-day they left the house for the purpose of visiting some friends. From appearances of a suspicious nature at 9 o'clock the same night the sister of the prosecutrix was sent for, when she found that a writing desk and three workboxes, which had been locked in the morning, had been' A broken open. The table-cover was on the table when she left, and all the of her articles produced were there then, including a jacket and two dresses belong • ing to her sister, besides £5 in gold and silver, a gold watch and chain, and jewellery belonging to herhelf, The prisoner 1434 Campbell atthe time contrived to effect his escape, but having received information, John Cook, police-constable, 198 S, apprehended him en the morning of Dec. 31, at 47, Dudley street, Seven-dials, when he was told that he was charged with being concerned with another man named John Goff, alias Jerry Cotter, with breaking and entering the house at No. 5, Hamilton-street, Camden Town, on Christmas night, and stealing a quantity of property, he replied in the phrase. ology of a th'ef. " I hope you are not getting this up for me. If the ' slop raps' (the policeman) swears to me, with my character, I shall get something for this." He was told that he must g ) to the station-house, and that there he would have nothing bat fair play, upon which he put on a Scotch cap. He was told that he might wear the cap; but if he did so, he (the policeman) should take the hat also to the station-house. He was put into the charge-room with a number of other persons all wearing hats, and Ballard, the officer, identified him from amongst the rest. It was proved by Sergeant Holmes, 3 F, that he had seen the two prisoners repeatedly together during the last fifteen months. Ackroll, another police-constable, 43 F, also proved that he had often seen the prisoners together, Mr. Montagu Williams made a very able speech on be half of Campbell, setting up as his defence an alibi, and called three witnesses, who swore that they were at the prisoner's house on the night in question, and that ho was never absent for more than ten minutes during the whole of that time. Mr. Grantham replied, and said that with regard to the witnesses who had been called on behalf of the prisoner' one was a sister and the other tho brother-in-law, and they were directly interested in the acquittal of the prisoner, therefore, their evidence was worthy of no credence what- ever. Mr. Payne summed up the evidence in a most careful manner, and The Jury, after some time spent in deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty against the prisoner Campbell. Mr. Payne asked if anything was known of the prisoners. William Ackrell, 48 F, said on the Oaks day of the Epsom races last year (1863) Campbell was sentenced to imprison ment for six calendar months at Epsom by the magistrates for picking pockets. He also knew him to be a companion of the worst of thieves and burglars, and one of his com panions was now serving ten years' penal servitude, and another 20 years. Sergeant Holmes, 3 F, corroborated this statement. Henry Bingham, a constable of the F division, said on the 3d of February, 1851, Goff was convicted of burglary at the Central Criminal Court, and was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. After serving four years of t his sentence he was liberated with a ticket of leave. On Oct. 15, 1855, a few months after the prisoner was liberated with a ticket of leave, he was again convicted of burglary, and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude in the name of James Tre lawny. He was again liberated on a ticket of leave, and since then had been the constant associate of thieves and burglars. Mr. Payne said he looked upon this prosecution as a very effectual one for the protection of the public ; for in this case it appeared that these persons went out for the purpose of spending Christmas day, when they were robbed of property amounting to upwards of £3O ; but the most aggravating part of the case was that the prisoner Campbell had called several witnesses on his part whom no one could believe. With respect to the prisoner Goff, all kinds of punishment appeared to have been without etlect. He had been senten ced to penal servitude for 10 years for a skeleton-key rob bet y, and after serving four years was discharged with a ticket of leave. He had not been out long when he commit ted another burglary. and was sentenced to seven years pe nal servitude, but was again let out for the second time with a ticket of leave. On both occasions he had got portions of his sentence remitted with a ticket of leave; therefore his present sentence must be a heavy one. lie had been guilty of wholesale robberies, and therefore the sentence of the Court now upon him was that he be kept in penal servitude for this offence for 15 years. As regarded Campbell, the sentence upon him was that he be kept in penal servitude for five years, for although he had never received any seri ous punishment, he was an old offender. Eliza M'Neil, 25, convicted on Wednesday of stealing a piece of lin- ey, the property of John Richard Palmer, was brought up for judgment. At the trial Mr. Abram, who appeared for the prisoner, urged that as she was in a certain state, she was unaccount able for her actions, from peculiarities which sometimes de veloped themselves in married women, and she was put back to allow inquiries to be made. Mr. Payne, having made some inquiries, sentenced her to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months. Vacancies, Promotions, and Appointments in the Civil Service. JOURNALS, I The Mysterious Poisoning Case at Himbleton, DROITWICII, Friday. SPIRIT OF (From tile Civil Service Gazelle.) The Royal Household.—The housekeepership o Hampton Court Palace has become vacant by the death of Mrs. Grundy. House of Commons.—A vacancy for trainbearer to the Speaker has occurred, by the death of Mr. Robert Bailey. Foreign Office.—Mr. George Brackenbury, Con sul at Madrid, has been appointed consul at Cha rente, in the room of Captain Hamilton, deceased. Mr. Ricketts has been appointed consul at Sarawak, Borneo. Home Office.--A vacancy for a magistrate in the Southwark Police Court has been caused by the death of Mr. Boyce Combo. Board of Trade.--Registry and Record Office of Seamen.—Mr. Eugene Arthur Rogers Acton has been appointed a third-class clerk in the registry of seamen's office. Mr. Constantine Msguire has been appointed a temporary clerk in the registry of 839.- men's office. Mr. Percy Edward Jackson has been appointed a temporary clerk in the registry of sea men's office. Mr, Lewis Brown has been appointed a temporary clerk in the registry of seamen's office. Mr. Reymes Harrel bar been appointed a temporary clerk in the registry of seamen's effice. Mr. John Peake has been appointed a temporary clerk in the registry of seamen's dice. Mr. Thomas Edward Price has been appointed a temporary clerk in the registry of seamen's office• Mr. William Henry Mulley has been appointed a temporary clerk in the registry of seamen's office. Mr. Arthur Daters hos been appointed a temporary clerk in the registry of seamen's office. Le av Department.—Mr. John Edmund Bentley has been appointed a clerk in the master's office, Qaeen's Bench, London. Mr. William J. Weller has been appointed a clerk in the Exchequer of Pleas office, Loudon. Customs.—Mr. Charles C. Cotton has been ap pointed an extra clerk, London. Mr. William B. Peach has been appointed an extra clerk, London. Mr. Robert A. Ogilvie, inspector-general of the out-door department, has been promoted to be a surveyor-general, London. Mr. Samuel Brent, landing-surveyor, has been promoted to be an in spector-general, London. Mr. John Thorpe, land ing-surveyor, has been promoted to be an inspector general, London. Mr. George Finch has been pro moted from the 4th to the 3d class of clerks, im ports and exports office. Mr. John K. Williams has been promoted from the sth to the 4th class of clerks, imports and exports office. Mr. Henry J. Scott has been promoted from the 6th to the sth class of clerks, examiner's office. Mr. John Truscott has been promoted to senior out-door officer, Fowey. Mr. Robert Tyra has been promoted from the 2d to the Ist class of out-door officers, Greenock. Mr. William Comrie has been promoted from the 31 to the 2d class of out-door officers, Greenock. Messrs. James Robertson and Hugh Hutton have been promoted from the 4th to the 3d class of out-door officers, Greenock. Mr. James Frazer has been promoted from the sth to the 4th class of out-door officers, Greenock. Inland Revenue (Excise Branch).—Mr. John Thomas Turner, examiner, has been appointed supervisor of Alloa, 2d district, Stirling collection. Mr. Charles Sowter, supervisor, Longford district, Athlone collection, has been appointed supervisor of Ware, 2d district, Ware collection. Mr. Augus tine Knocker, examiner, has been appointed super visor of Longford district, Athlone collection. Mr. Joseph Fleming Cockburn, examiner, has been appointed supervisor of Long Island dis trict, Mr. John Sacheveral Harwood, officer, Dublin, Ist division, Dublin collection, has been ap pointed examiner. Mr. John Speak, officer, Pais ley, 7th division, Ayr collection, has been appointed examiner. Mr. Anthony Alexander Kennedy, officer, Londonderry, 3d division, Londonderry col lectiou, has been appointed examiner. Ireland—Dr. William M. Burke has been ap pointed Medical Registrar for Ireland, under the new Registration Act. Mr. Charles Hurtord has been appointed a clerk in the Quartermaster- General's Office, Dublin. "PUNISHED kOR LIVING TOO LONG."—The case of the pauper, William Novies, a man 82 years of age, who was recently committed to prison for three weeks' hard labour by the Uckfield bench of magistrate, for refusing to do the work required of him, has just been brought under the notice of the Home Secretary by the 'Marquis Town. ahead, and an official inquiry is about to be made into the circumstances. The Home Secretary has written to the [Jckfield magistrates, desiring to be furnished with a copy of the depositions upon which Movies was sent to prison, and the committing justices are at present in =autica -1 don with Sir George Grey upon the affair. PoeT.—lt is every day becoming more and more manifest that there has been a sad failure of justice in Townley's case. The proceedings of the Derby shire magistretes, given in our impression of Thurs day, have confirmed some, at least, of the suspicions we could not help entertaining, and felt it our duty to express ; and further inquiry, which can hardly be refused, will, we fear, show still more conclusively that there has been in this miserable affair a flag rant departure from the ordinary course of proce dure. We are willing, and indeed desirous, to be lieve that the Home Secretary has been deceived and misled ; but be that as it may—and as the mat ter stands the public cannot afford to consider Sir George Grey's po-ition—a full and authorita tive explanation is imperatively demanded. All who are said to be concerned in this transaction — the Home Secretary, the judge, and the justices and physicians who signed the certificate of lunacy everybody who has been compromised by reports and so-called explanations, and everybody whose conduct is arraigned in the remonstrance which the county magistrates have signed and forwarded to Sir George Grey—must concur in the general con viction that nothing short of the largest and most thorough investigation can now be accepted. We gather from the statement of Mr. Mundy the chairman of the visiting justices, that the certificate of lunacy under the Act 3d and 4th Victoria was signed on the Tuesday after the commission ap pointed by the Home Secretary had examined Townley and his friends on the Sunday, and, as the reprieve arrived at Darby on the same Tuesday evening, we do not see how it could possibly have been granted on that certificate. The commis sioners sent down by the Home Secretary arrived in Derby on Saturday, and had an interview with the prisoner. On the Sunday morning following they were present when the " condemned sermon' was preached, and during the afternoon of that day they were engaged in the examination of witnesses. On the next day they presented their report at the Home-office, and it was at once sent to Sir George Grey, who was then in Northumberland. This re port could not have come into the hands of the Home Secretary before Taesday morning, and the mes senger ca rrying the reprieve arrived at Derby Gaol on that same Tuesday evening. But before his arrival the prisoner's attorney had left Derby with the intention of going direct to Sir George Grey in Northumberland, and there can be no doubt that he took with him the certificate of lunacy which had just been signed by two justices and two medical men, as the Act required. He was, however, tele graphed that Townley had been respited, and, we presume, though it does not much matter, returned to Derby and sent the certificate to the Home Sec retary by post. So much for the attempt that has been made to escape from inquiry by referring to the provisions of an Act of Parliament, and to a cer tificate of lunacy o 7 which the Herne Secretary could have had no official knowledge when he respited the convict. But, as good often comes out of evil, this attempt to explain away the stubborn facts of the case has called attention to the manner in which the certificate was obtained, and will, most likely, lead to the reconsideration of an Act which can be so car ried out. This Act of Parliament, Mr. Crompton says, was " made use of by those interested in the defence of Townley to introduce into the gaol a com mission, formed of certain justices who had previ ously formed and expressed an opinion upon the case they were to investigate," and of two medical men, one of whom " is the partner of another medical gentleman in Derby who gave most powerful evi dence in favour of the prisoner, and who holds the office of surgeon to the gaol." These four gentlemen, who were selected to visit Townley under the pro visions of the Act of Parliament, and to report upon his state of mind, had actually, all of them, pre viously signed a memorial to the Home Secretary stating it to be the opinion of the memorialists that the convict was insane ! It would be a work of supe rerogation to comment on proceedings so tainted with suspic;on, no matter whether founded or not, and we are quite; content to leave the bare facts as they have come to us to the appreciation of the pub lic. Nor is it worth to follow the shifting sub terfuges which are still ben.:(e' resorted to with the view of diverting attention iro:n what we will for the moment call only an error ct,' judgment. At first it was said that Sir George Grey had no dis cretion, inasmuch ae under the provisioels of the Act he was compelled to respite Townley ant; Place him in a lunatic asylum on the certificate of two justices and two medical men. But that having been found to be a rope of sand, it is now said—no doubt hastily and unadvisedly—that the certificate left Sir George Grey no discretion as to issuing a commission to inquire into the state of mind of the convict ; whereas, in point of fact, the certificate was not even signed when Sir George Grey sent off the reprieve, and the Act, moreover, says not one word about directing a commission as is alleged. The truth is, the Home Secretary ordered the com mission upon reading the memorial which was pre sented to him, and seeing that the justices and the needical men who signed the memorial also subse.- quee tii signed the certificate, it is just possible that the enfant:ll into which the would-be exculpators of the Home-otilce have fallen may be so accounted for. That, at all evt:PlB, is the most charitable ex planation we can offer in their behalf. As to this being a question of etiquette or jealousy between county magistrates and borougil magistrates, the question is simply preposterous. It is, as we know but too well by this time, a question of ibe adminis tration of justice, and, as such, it has been put in the remonstrance which the county magistrates have addressed to the Home Secretary. That remon strance, too, we will take leave to observe, applies equally, and with almost equal force, to the pro. ceedings taken under both the commissions. Both were one-sided investigations. Both were private and ex parte. In neither was the prosecution heard nor the interests of the public adequately repre sented. It is also incontrovertible that, as the magistrates state, "justice has been turned aside by the power of money." Of course, no one believes that Sir George Grey has bean influenced by the fact that Townley's friends were well-off in the world, but people do feel, and they cannot help feel ing, that if this had been the case of a poor man, without friends, the result would been different. Perhaps there hardly ever was a case in which there was so little sympathy for a convict ; and while the report, said to have been made to Sir George Grey by Mr. Baron Martin, is withheld from the public, they Can come to no other conclusion than that the paid machinery which has been set in motion has been the means of saving Townley from the gallows, and otinflicting, in its sequence, a grievous wrong upon society. TIMES. At the Derbyshire Quarter Sessions on Tuesday last a remarkable expression was given to the feeling created by the late respite of the convict Townley. We have already indicated the unsatis factory aspects of that proceeding, and the general complexion of the affair is certainly not improved by the statements now male. It is not to be anti cipated that the reprieved convict could now, under any circumstances, be taken from the asylum to which he has been consigned, and sent to the gal lows. It is not clear that the gallows rather than a madhouse should in justice have been his end, for it appears that he is certainly mad at this moment, end perhaps that fact yields some additional pre sumption that he was mad when he committed the murder. But the whole case from beginning to end bears so forcibly on public interests, and the pre cedent is likely to be of such grave importance, that we are not sorry to see it re-opened by the Derby shire magistrates. Townley's fate is decided, but there may be other Townleys in future times. The Derbyshire magistrates do not mince their words in addressing Sir Geo r g e Gre y on the point :—" The result of these private proceedings has been a respite of the prisoner and an order for his removal to a lunatic asylum. The effect has been to cause much dissatisfaction, to eh?ate a feeling greatly to be lamented—that there is oi:f' law for the rich and another for the poor; that justh:e has been turned aside by the power of money, and telet if Townley and his friends had been poor he would e tl a ve been this executed, as a man named Thor le y was iu county last year for a murder unde r like cireunc stances." We hope that the inquiry now prayed for, whatever it may establish respecting the Derby Commission, will lead to the recognition of such principles as will place the administration of justice on an unexceptionable footing for the future. If a trial by jury is to be followed by a trial of another kind, let the second be as fair as the first, with no advantage, either direct or indirect, for the rich over the poor. If the sanity of a convict is to be tested as Townley's was tested, provision should be made for the cases cf those who may not have Townley's resources in friends and money. Money did not buy Townley favour, but it bought him " energy and effort," employed unsparingly in his behalf. One a gis t r a t e w s bbw candidlyere b t admitted engaged, and thath e co n u e ld of not the blame r those who did their best to earn their fees. Of course he could not. Townley's family had a perfect right to employ the best advocacy available on his behalf ; but the misfortune in such cases is, that whereas nothing is left undone on the side of the prisoner, a good deal may be left undone on the side of the pub lic. The feeling, however , abroad r, now agood sign. It is so easy to incline to mercy, an rigour and so cruelly in vidious to press for the last of the law, that strong opinions must be entertained before any persons would move as the Derbyshire magistrates have moved in the matter before us. We wait for the result which such a movement may produce. It would be satisfactory to learn that the Derby Commission watt not open to the objections advanced by the protesting magistrates, but it would be still more so to find that the course of justice in such cases will be left exposed t ' oEijee.,Ohe no longer. It will be remembered that:. a few weeks ago a good deal of excitement was occasioned at the vil lage of Himbleton, near this town, by the death of a young lady named Husband, aged 20, the adopted niece of the Rev. J. Vernon, curate of Hitubleton, who expired on Oct. 7, after a short illness, diving which she was unattended by a medical man. It seems Mr. Bishop, surgeon, of Worcester, who At tended the family, had been sent for in the morning by Mrs. Vernon, but was unable to get to Himble ton until the evening, when he found Miss Husband dead. From the symptoms as described to him, Mr. Bishop came to the conclusion that she had died from bilious cholera, and she was buried. Some time afterwards, however, a rumour got abroad to the effect that she had been poisoned, and accord ingly the coroner of the district, W. S. P. Hughes, Esq., ordered the body to be disinterred and ex amined by a medical man. It was then discovered ❑ot only that deceased had died from poison, a large quantity of arsenic being found in the intestines and stomach, but that she was six months gone with child. At the inquest a young carpenter of the village, named Cole, admitted that he had been on intimate terms with the de ceased, and that he wished to marry her, but his friends objected. It came out that the servants at the rectory connived at the acquaintance, and that Cole used to visit Miss Husband in the kitchen and back premises with the knowledge of the servants, but unknown to the master or mistress. Mrs. Vernon had heard rumours of the intimacy of her niece with Cole, but Miss Husband had always denied it to her aunt. A quantity of arsenic was found in a cup board at the rectory after the deceased's death, but Mrs. Vernon and the servants on the inquest denied all knowledge of it. The inquest ended in a verdict that deceased had died from the effects of poison, but how administered there was no evidence to show,. The result has by no means satisfied the public. mind, and other rumours having got abroad as to the cause of the deceased's death, the magistrates of the district determined to reopen the investigation. Accordingly some magistrates have been sitting here yesterday and to-day, the Right Hon. Sir J. S. Pakington in the chair, for the purpose of making a preliminary inquiry into the circumstances. A great number of witnesses have been summoned on the inquiry, and have been examined, but the magis trates having decided to conduct the inquiry pri vately, we are not in a position to go into details. The result of their deliberations will be made public at the close of the inquiry. COUNTRY MARKETS• ----- WAKEFIELD—FRIDAY. Wheat ,generally r old for an advance of is per qr on last Friday's prices. Barley was in better demand, and rather dearer. Other articles bring fully late rates. LIVERPOOL—FRIDAY. Thero was a thin attendance of the trade to-day, and but a small business was done. Wheat in favour of sellers• Indian corn 6d per qr lower. Flour dul;, and unchanged in price. TRIDAY. L offer at our market to-daY) about previous rates. Barley, grinding 28s to 303 Oats, old, .. 24s to 28 New do 203 to 24 0 j Beans . 4(s to 42 0 1 Beans, new.. 378 to 400 LINCOLN. A fair quantity of wheat on with a moderate business, at a White wheat new, 44s to 47s Red do. 3Bs to 41s Old white —s to -S lted do. —s to -8 I Barley, malting 33s to 38s 1 STAMFORD-FRIDAY. White wheat, 42s to 44s ; red, 3Gs to 40s per 36 stone. Barley, malting, 34s to ; grinding, 29s to 32a per qr. Oats, 20s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to 428 pa qr. ; new, 34s to 365. CORK—FRIDAY. The following were the quotations this morning :-Ited wheat, 8s Od to 8s 10d; white, 8s Od t 0,98 8d , barley, ,; 6d to 8s Od ; oats, 4s 10d to 6 s 2 d ; black do. , 4 s 4d tv 56 31. -FRIDAY. s. d. • ( in' u Oatmeal lO 0 to 13 Beans.. —0 to 0 Bere ... 0 to --- it Rapeseed —0 t o " A Bakers' Hour 14 oto '2O Indian corn .. 27 0 to 28 DUBLIN. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 24 0 to 26 6 Do., red 2l 6 to 24 0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black — 0 to 0 BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY. The raw sugar market remains firm. Refined goods ilre s teady. 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Austin I) ,, e g i r o? to Melisina Mary Trench, daughter of the Arc of Dublin. „ .4 11 NV ItEATLEY—MILLI—On the 7th inst., at St. OCIP Hanover-square, Captain Moreton JohnWheatleY.„vett, to Edith Frances, youngest daughter of Charles It" Esq., of Queen's -gate terrace. Deaths. 134 4 C O LERIDGE.—On the sth inst., at Heidelberg. p•-'t Major Whiter Coleridge , late of the 20th Madras aged 44. f P °el DAVIES.—On the 7th inst. , Mr. David Davies, o• ~,,fil street, Islington, late of Compton - str eet, Drunsis' aged 85. I;4 t 1 4 EDWARDS.—On the Bth inst., at 6, Grosvenor-street' Edwards, at an advanced age. 5t i c ,1, STEWARD.—On the 7th inst., at his residence, A,l„,cot ' Dean's-yard, Westminster, Thomas Franco °‘''' Esq., aged 68, e d acoo TitoLrorE.—On the Sth inst , at Christ's Hospital, `-" Trollope, Esq., aged 62. ' , Will°,o 1 TOLLEMACIIE.—On the 6th inst., at Edinburgh., -,1,, ;.' ham Francis Tollemache, Etg., Commander l''• tired list. 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